At times a red and evanescent light,

Or for a moment wakes a feeble flame.

They by the fountain hear the stream below,

Whose murmurs, as the wind arose or fell,

Fuller or fainter reach the ear attuned.

And now the nightingale, not distant far,

Began her solitary song; and pour’d

To the cold moon a richer, stronger strain

Than that with which the lyric lark salutes

The new-born day. Her deep and thrilling song